Zine Crafting: From Sketchbook to Copy Machine

Know Media

Hey, you. Let's write a zine!

This workshop is designed for adults and teens 14+. This is a drop-in event, and registration is not available.

Zines are little books you write/draw, smash onto a copy machine, make prints, and give to your friends. In their simplest form they are magazines (‘zines) you make with a copy paper. The topics a zine can cover are endless. They can be comics about your friends, political rants, personal essay, DIY, etc, etc, etc. What would you want to write a zine about?

In this two-hour workshop, we will explore what zines are and make a collective zine based on a prompt. Each participant will craft a page that will form a community zine. Zines will be copied by the workshop facilitator and mailed to participants upon completion!

Supplies provided!

Zines have the capacity to explore the stories otherwise marginalized from traditional media. When you hold a zine you are holding a one-of-a-kind narrative, an unrefined artifact that resists censorship. When you write a zine you get the chance to tell your story.

About the Instructor:

Rachel Lee-Carman is a teaching artist focused on zines, writing, and illustration. She has taught residencies through The Nature of Words, Young Audiences, Invisible Thread Events, and just-for-hecks pop-up workshops. Rachel has been crafting zines for over 20 years and utilizes the medium for self-expression, entertainment, and the exploration of whimsy. She seeks to encourage others to tell their story through self-publishing as a means of deepening our relationship with self, friends, and community. Rachel lives in Central Oregon and when she’s not doing creative work she is watering her squash plants.

Questions? Contact emilyc@deschuteslibrary.org